Saturday of Holy Week

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• Holy Week — (Latin: Hebdomada Sancta or Maior Hebdomada , Greater Week ) in Christianity is the last week before Easter. It includes the religious holidays of Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday (Holy Thursday) and Good Friday, and lasts from Palm Sunday (or in the …   Wikipedia

• Holy Week — • The week which precedes the great festival of the Resurrection on Easter Sunday, and which consequently is used to commemorate the Passion of Christ, and the event which immediately led up to it Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Holy… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Holy Week (Catholic Church) — Holy Week in the Catholic liturgical calendar is the week from Palm Sunday (also called Passion Sunday) through Holy Saturday. What occurs during Holy Week Each of the days of Holy Week has its own traditions of services in the West. Believers… …   Wikipedia

• Holy Week in Seville — ( Semana Santa en Sevilla ) is one of the most important traditional events of the city. It is celebrated in the week leading up to Easter, one to two weeks before the city s other great celebration, the Feria, and is amongst the largest… …   Wikipedia

• Holy Week — Holy Ho ly, a. [Compar. {Holier}; superl. {Holiest}.] [OE. holi, hali, AS. h[=a]lig, fr. h[ae]l health, salvation, happiness, fr. h[=a]l whole, well; akin to OS. h?lag, D. & G. heilig, OHG. heilac, Dan. hellig, Sw. helig, Icel. heilagr. See… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Holy Week — the week preceding Easter Sunday. [1700 10; trans. of It settimana santa] * * * ▪ Christianity       in the Christian Church, the week between Palm Sunday and Easter, observed with special solemnity as a time of devotion to the passion of Jesus… …   Universalium

• Holy Week procession — A Holy Week procession is an event taking place in Holy Week, most often in a country with traditional Roman Catholic culture.*Palm Sunday: The day when Jesus arrived in Jerusalem. *Holy Thursday: The day when Jesus gave Last Supper, followed by… …   Wikipedia

• Holy Week in Zamora — This religious celebration, declared in the early 1980s of international touristic interest is what the city of Zamora, Spain, is best known for. It is the only one in the region, together with Valladolid to be awarded the highest rank.Holy Week… …   Wikipedia

• Holy Week —    The last week in Lent is so called and among the ancients was known also as The Great Week, because of the important events in the last week in our Lord s Life which it commemorates. It is a week of solemn and awful memories, a holy time of… …   American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia

• holy — adj. (holier, holiest) 1 morally and spiritually excellent or perfect, and to be revered. 2 belonging to, devoted to, or empowered by, God. 3 consecrated, sacred. 4 used in trivial exclamations (holy cow!; holy mackerel!; holy Moses!; holy… …   Useful english dictionary

• Holy Saturday — the Saturday in Holy Week. [1350 1400; ME] * * * ▪ Christianity also called  Easter Vigil,         Christian religious observance that ends the Lenten season, falling on the day before Easter Sunday. The early church celebrated the end of Lent… …   Universalium